below: representative screen-shots of
some of Igor's interactive web-works

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i n t i m a | v i r t u a l b a s e

SINGLE, structurally equal to
ALL and endless in the microstructure is showing the totality
and breakness of INTIMA in her mirror image. ONE, split into
TWO is compatible with the life of INTIMA. The magic structure
of ONE and the obsession with the individuality inspires the
ritual beauty of polarity which is shown on the altar of art.
The Story about INTIMA is presented by a mathematical microstructure.

The circle is drawn and in the circle there is a whole world.

There is a world of the COSMOS and a world of the ATOM, but
INTIMA is the zone of their co-existence.

intima | virtual base is an artistic mark for net art
projects and contemporary arts actions. Currently located in
Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Basic philosophical substance: the intimate, ascetic and interactive
aesthetics. The key words for all activities are seclusion and
ascetics. These imply intimacy, which after all is emphasized
in the name of the artistic mark.

Five of Stromajer's projects are the courtesy of the following
institutions:

they learned this intimacy, however, meditating on the
house6x emotional net.landscape x6, 2001
[co-produced by intima | virtual base and CICV Pierre Schaeffer,
France as part of the virtual residence Ateliers 2001]

"Stromajer may become one of the leading figures in
Slovenian art, if he already isn't."
[by S. Osmanagic, Delo, 2002]

"Igor Stromajer challenges his audience to freely
associate based on quotes, links, and video fragments from the
mass media and (cinema) history. And typically for him, he doesn't
address the meaning of his work, but instead gives way to the
fantasy of the audience."
[by impakt 2001]

"A true seeker of the emotional, intimate and personal
aspects of the Internet and a militant striving to infuse this
space with human warmth, Igor Stromajer is known as the author
of a virtual base, called intima.org, which is welcoming and
alluring, and yet non-lavish and non-seductive in its appearance.
One of the most versatile artists on the Net, and the first cantor
of HTML."
[by Rossitza Daskalova]

"Check out this online art experience, sure to spark
your curiosity, make you think and maybe even make you laugh.
The website as an art installation is filled with interactive
elements. Have a look!"
gsm.art [by AbsoluteArts]

"...the offering of highly evocative often frustrating
settings and sequences where the visitors are constantly asked
to send in comments, comparing, for example, their own feelings
and aspirations with those of the characters being presented.
An important pit stop on the eastern European Web scene."
[by zoom net]

"Like other projects by Stromajer, GSMart is a very
good example of 'classical' net.art conceptualism, using the
tools and possibilities of the WWW in matters of design, interactivity,
connectivity, delay, etc., for artistic realisations which are
only possible in this medium."
gsm.art [by Andreas Broeckmann]

"Challenging works that reinvent Internet navigation
and the narrow relationship between the network and fiction."
gsm.art and gps.art [by FCMM]

"Over the last few years, Igor Stromajer (Ljubljana)
has developed several interactive web art projects. '0.html',
for example, operates with a well known repertoire from computer
games and the Internet: Upon entering, the user is confronted
with warning messages hinting at limited access ('Access denied')
and is asked to enter a password. If choosing the right one,
s/he is permitted access to the different levels of '0.html':
The Body Observation Section, The Communication Area, The Plain
of Provocative Intelligence and The Archives of Conditions. All
of these levels are linked to sound files. Jozip Broz Tito speaks
to the nation, the US President explains the geopolitical role
of the United States, Kraftwerk counts reversely and suddenly
there is Neil Armstrong's voice from the year 1969, telling about
the great leap for humanity. '0.html' is an archive of historical
techno imagination, world politics and a grain of melancholy.
At the end of the tour through this complex project, Stromajer
confronts the visitor with the following words: 'Internet is
the most primitive medium ever'."
0.HTML [by Inke Arns]

"The dedication of this web project to his dead father
already suggests that b.ALT.ica is a personal and emotional work.
Just as with other Stromajer projects of are the graphics beautifully
reduced and the navigation obviously good. The contents on the
other hand are less amenable but rather associative short stories."
b.ALT.ica [by transmediale99]

"... excellent pieces of computer based artworks,
installations, net art and digital sound projects to the local
and international audience."
[by Pd List Off Topic]

"This site is a creation of intim@ virtual base /
generation 002, the brainchild of Slovenian artist Igor Stromajer.
"b.ALT.ica." is a work that takes the visitor into
the Great Beyond. Right at the start, the visitor is told that
the work is dedicated to the artist's father, now living at "b.ALT.ica",
the world at the end of time. Navigation is made easy enough
through symbols appearing on screen, clicking on which allows
the visitor to discover a world of many faces. This world does
not represent any physical space, nor are there any time zones,
though anti-virus protection is recommended. As the visit progresses,
the viewer makes connections between the two worlds, which are
in fact one and the same."
b.ALT.ica [by CIAC Electronic Art Magazine]

"Is there anybody our there? launched in 1998 by Igor
Stromajer. This net.artwork deals with loneliness and communication
and associates the loneliness that one can experience in cyberspace,
behind one's computer window and space loneliness through the
emblematic figures of Gagarin and Terechkova, being the only
human "there" at a time, with no one to share the extraordinary
moments they were living. In Stromajer's view, the two cosmonauts
are the Adam and Eve of our new era. In this work, Gagarin and
Terechkova become kinds of icons, part of a saga and of real
history. Through them and their symbolic value, space has become
part of history, of our life, something "usual".
e/motion [by Annick Bureaud]

"an archive of historical techno-imagination, world
politics and a grain of melancholy"
0.HTML [by Andreas Broeckmann]

"His recent navigational digital web movie, sprinkling
menstrual navigator combines movies with written instructions
that are alternately philosophical ("enjoy your sadness"),
pragmatic ("enter by clicking enter signs"), or a synthesis
of the two ("free your mind and the rest will follow").
The viewer then manipulates the work by clicking on individual
film sequences. The resulting "short stories" rely
on popular culture and individual (subjective) associations to
create their full content."
sm.N - Sprinkling Menstrual Navigator [by Barbara Lee Williams,
Leonardo/ISAST Awards Committee chairperson]

"A webmovie with restricted navigational possibilities
that conveys a view of the current communications world in all
its disjointedness and emotional range."
sm.N - Sprinkling Menstrual Navigator [by transmediale.01]